I googled around and searched the Gentoo forums for this error, and I couldn't find anything on it so I dismissed it as a server error. I went to sync today, got the same error. Every time it tries to sync.

It seems like something on my system isn't allowing rsync to even check the timestamp. I don't have iptables even compiled at the moment (I'm on a fresh install of Gentoo 2007. I had an extreme amount of configuration errors the first time )

So I did "emerge-webrsync -v", which did it perfectly, but I really prefer "emerge --sync", because each time I do webrsync it has to download the whole 30MB portage tree as opposed to the few hundred KB of select ebuilds.

After webrsync'ing, I thought that rsync might possibly be borked, so I updated it. It's now version 2.6.9, and still having the same problems.

This is due to recent changes in the mirror structure, including the loss of one of the main rotation servers. The infrastructure team is in the process of tuning the remaining servers in the main rotation, though even with tuning the capacity will remain somewhat reduced from its prior state unless another server can be set up to replace it. The most practical solution is to not use the main rotation by switching to the local rotation nearest you, at least so far as the network is concerned.

To that end the recommendation in the handbook is to use mirrorselect (app-portage/mirrorselect), mirrorselect -i -r should suffice.

Made topic sticky.

Last edited by desultory on Mon Jun 09, 2008 4:54 am; edited 1 time in total

For the sake of expediency, utility and laziness, instead of trying to find public rsync test service just use a different mirror to do the test, like so: rsync -nv rsync.us.gentoo.org::gentoo-portage/metadata/timestamp.chk.

It seems that is no longer a valid mirror, it has been dropped from the rotation due to related problems. Please post the output of either emerge --info or at least portageq envvar SYNC so that the problem can be properly isolated and resolved if it is not already.

It seems that is no longer a valid mirror, it has been dropped from the rotation due to related problems. Please post the output of either emerge --info or at least portageq envvar SYNC so that the problem can be properly isolated and resolved if it is not already.

I managed to sync with germany. Couldn't sync at belnet, which I was very satisfied all the time. Here are the links:

In most cases, essentially unless you have a local mirror, you should use a rotation instead of a specific server. Not only does it help to balance the load on the servers it helps to avoid this sort of problem.

In your case rsync.lu.gentoo.org and rsync.de.gentoo.org seem to be the best matches, considering that rsync.be.gentoo.org is presently an alias of rsync.us.gentoo.org.

It seems that is no longer a valid mirror, it has been dropped from the rotation due to related problems. Please post the output of either emerge --info or at least portageq envvar SYNC so that the problem can be properly isolated and resolved if it is not already.

I managed to sync with germany. Couldn't sync at belnet, which I was very satisfied all the time. Here are the links:

switching to Bochum University mirror worked here,
before I was using rsync.europe.org , and this was mine error :

Code:

# emerge --sync
>>> Starting rsync with rsync://137.226.34.228/gentoo-portage...
>>> Checking server timestamp ...
Welcome to rsync.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (137.226.34.228).
This server is part of the SunSITE Central Europe and is located
in Aachen, Germany (http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de).

I've tried the Bochum University mirror as suggested above, but I've got the same problems. It never worked in last say month - it's how long I have Gentoo.
emerge-webrsync works well though, so it's nothing all that bad, but I write it to here so somebody can to something about that. Or shall I file a bug?

It seems that Georgia Tech rsync mirror is having problem today. I was connected, but then I never received the file. I was stuck on the "receiving file list..." message for a long time._________________CPU: Intel Core 2 DuoGPU: nVidia GeForce 9800 GTMB: Asus P5N-E SLI